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Re:Show HN: Ovni.fm, music selected by robots using upvotes by dom96 on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @06:59PM (#7974002)
I am liking the music that I am currently listening to but apart from that I don't really understand how this music is selected. "By robots using upvotes" doesn't explain it very well.

It would also be nice to see some volume controls.

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Re:Show HN: Ovni.fm, music selected by robots using upvotes by phaser on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @07:07PM (#7974036)
On broad terms, music that is more "upvoted" tends to be selected by the "DJ" more often, but we use a trend predection algorythm to weight the selection.

Those are not the only criteria for selection, but its the most decisive. We assign "points" to the different criteria and then rank the next best song according to that index.

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